VOA标准英语--活动人士谴责拆迁拉各斯贫民窟
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2015年(十月)
Activists 1 Decry 2 Lagos Slum Demolition 3 活动人士谴责拆迁拉各斯贫民窟
LAGOS—
Acting 4 on a court order, authorities in Nigeria demolished 5 a slum last month in the commercial capital, Lagos. But human rights activists say the order was illegal, and the community was razed 6 to make way for a government housing project.
Thousands of Nigeria’s poor call a plot of swampy 7 land in Badia East near the Lagos port home. But bulldozers razed most of it shortly after a judge awarded the land to a traditional ruler last month.
Some residents like Oluwaseun Aiyenuro still live amid the rubble 8. His shack 9 is his only shelter from Lagos’s seasonal 10 rains.
“I just use a little bit experience for me to make it, to just be where I will put my head for the meantime because we do not know where we are going now,” he explained.
Slum demolitions 11 are nothing new in Africa's largest city. Badia East was created in the 1970s after the government forced people off a nearby parcel of land. Local leaders say they have been fighting periodic eviction 12 attempts ever since.
Then came last month’s demolition. Nothing was spared, not even the local clinic. Amnesty International and the Nigeria-based Justice & Empowerment Initiatives condemned 13 the action as a violation 14 of Nigerian and international law.
Advocates for Badia East say the slum was demolished to make way for a state housing project called the Home Ownership Mortgage Scheme. Part of that project is already being built on a section of the slum demolished two years ago. A state government spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.
Bimbo Osobe lost her family home and everything in it. “What we were told here, I knew many were lied to, which includes me,” she said.
Osobe said no one in the community has received compensation. Despite the demolitions, some people have not moved on. They simply have nowhere to go.
- His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
- Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Some people will decry this,insisting that President Obama should have tried harder to gain bipartisan support.有些人会对此表示谴责，坚持说奥巴马总统原本应该更加努力获得两党的支持。
- Now you decry him as another Hitler because he is a threat to the controlling interest of oil in the middle east.现在你却因为他对中东石油控制权益构成了威胁而谴责他为另一个希特勒。
- The church has been threatened with demolition for years. 这座教堂多年来一直面临拆毀的威胁。
- The project required the total demolition of the old bridge. 该项目要求将老桥完全拆毁。
- Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
- During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。
- The factory is due to be demolished next year. 这个工厂定于明年拆除。
- They have been fighting a rearguard action for two years to stop their house being demolished. 两年来，为了不让拆除他们的房子，他们一直在进行最后的努力。
- The village was razed to the ground . 这座村庄被夷为平地。
- Many villages were razed to the ground. 许多村子被夷为平地。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Malaria is still rampant in some swampy regions.疟疾在一些沼泽地区仍很猖獗。
- An ox as grazing in a swampy meadow.一头牛在一块泥泞的草地上吃草。
- After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
- After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
- He had to sit down five times before he reached his shack.在走到他的茅棚以前，他不得不坐在地上歇了五次。
- The boys made a shack out of the old boards in the backyard.男孩们在后院用旧木板盖起一间小木屋。
- The town relies on the seasonal tourist industry for jobs.这个城镇依靠季节性旅游业提供就业机会。
- The hors d'oeuvre is seasonal vegetables.餐前小吃是应时蔬菜。
- Randy Couture as Toll Road, an Expendable and demolitions expert. 大卫·萨亚斯饰演加尔扎将军，邪恶的独裁者。 来自互联网
- Allied Demolitions upgrade moved one slot to the left on the Allied HQ UI. 盟军的爆破升级在指挥部界面中左移一格（由于现在没钳子升级了，所以填钳子的位置）。 来自互联网
- The family have won a temporary reprieve from eviction.这个家庭暂时免于被逐出。
- He claimed damages for unlawful eviction.他要求对非法驱逐作出赔偿。